Andrew Martin – The Chess Clinic

2/13/2007 – Next week our Radio ChessBase Show on Playchess.com will pause while showmaster IM Andrew Martin travels to the United States to open a "Chess Clinic". This Wednesday he shows us that Black is more than OK, if our featured games are anything to go by. See you on the server.

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There will be no Radio Show next week as Andrew Martin travels to the United
States to open a 'Chess Clinic', where the typical problems of the average player
will be dissected and discussed. Anyone in the rating band 1000-2300 will benefit.
You are asked to check out the details on the Chessco website (www.chessco.com)
or contact blong@chessco.com for more information.

See you on the server at 2000 GMT/2100CET this Wednesday!

The Andrew Martin
Radio ChessBase lecture begins on Wednesdays at 21:00h CET (Central
European Time = server time, which translates to 20:00h London, 3:00
p.m. New York, 05:00 a.m. Sydney (on Thursday). You can use Fritz or
any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow
the lectures, or download a free
trial client.

The
Andrew Martin Chess Academy offers a personal game annotation service;
a regular newsletter written by AMCA staff; the best online tuition in terms
of value and quality; a series of tournaments for children aged under 14; all
aspects of chess training, including specific opening preparation; an AMCA room
at PlayChess.com, where lessons may be held in complete privacy with our expert
tutors – all at a time that is best for you at any time of day or night,
anywhere in the world. The motto: "Join us, Improve and enjoy your chess!"

Andrew Martin, chess trainer and teacher

He is not some unknown in the world of chess. Andrew Martin was the star commentator
in the 2000 London match between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, and he
gained recent international fame and popularity with his live audio commentary
on Playchess.com during the FIDE world
championship in San Luis.

Andrew is also a prolific chess trainer, not just live in British scholastic
circles, but also in a series of training DVDs he has produced for ChessBase,
taking full advantage of our Chess Media System. His lively, entertaining style,
combined with a good dash of humour, makes any lesson with him a delight to
follow.

Andrew Martin is 47 years old and lives in Sandhurst, England, with his wife
and four children. His book King‘s Indian Battle Plans for Thinkers
Press was an international best-seller.

Each week Martin will cast his eye over the contemporary chess scene, presenting
a veritable pot-pourri of interesting topics. We look forward to the pleasure
of your company.

Andrew Martin: The Trompowsky – The easy way

See also

12/30/2017 – The "King Salman World Blitz & Rapid Championships 2017" in Riyadh from Decemer 26th to 30th. At the half way point of the Blitz Championship, the defending champ Sergey Karjakin leads with 9 / 11. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a half point back followed by Peter Svidler and a trio of Chinese: Wang, Ding and Yu on 8 / 11. In the Women's Pia Cramling has a full point lead with 9½ / 11. Watch live with Rounds 11 to 22 from 12:00 Noon CET (6:00 AM EST) on Saturday with commentary by E. Miroshnichenko & WGM K. Tsatsalashvili.

See also

12/6/2017 – Imagine this: you tell a computer system how the pieces move — nothing more. Then you tell it to learn to play the game. And a day later — yes, just 24 hours — it has figured it out to the level that beats the strongest programs in the world convincingly! DeepMind, the company that recently created the strongest Go program in the world, turned its attention to chess, and came up with this spectacular result.

Video

On this 60 mins video we are going to concentrate on a simple, very solid idea in the main line Scandinavian, which even Magnus Carlsen has used to win games. Black focusses on making his life easy in the opening and forces White to work very hard to get advantage – but it is doubtful if White can get an advantage. Club players are always on the lookout for effective, time-saving solutions and here we have just that. Accompany FIDE Senior Trainer and IM Andrew Martin on this 60 mins video. You can learn a new opening system in 60 mins and start to play it with confidence on the very same day!

Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (World Cup, Isle of Man Open) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 10 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.